Finance Operations Analyst

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• Glencore Holdings South Africa
• Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
• Finance Operations

Job ID HRR0001022/23 Closing date 25/05/2024 Last Updated 16/05/2024 The purpose of this role is to support the Marketing Finance team in Baar and Johannesburg We are looking for a motivated and eager candidate with a keen interest in the commodity trading environment where you will be responsible for: invoicing, collection and settlement and relevant projects. We are looking for someone with a keen interest in business process automation, internal control, efficiency, and improvement. KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• Finance Marketing department in Baar and Johannesburg
• Finance Back Office team.
• Marketing and Logistics team in Baar and Johannesburg

QUALIFICATION & SKILL REQUIREMENTS: Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance.

Additional Qualifications:

• Advantageous to demonstrate post qualification studies or soft skills development.

Competencies:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills that work effectively within team and different audiences.
• Adaptable, dynamic, and organised with a positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Interacts well within a team and actively manage expectations.
• Take initiative in resolving issues in a structured methodical manner.
• Have a strong sense of responsibility and ownership.
• High level of attention detail, in a fast-moving environment.
• Deliverable and service orientated.
• Pro- active, accountable, and self- motivated.
• Need to be adaptable, flexible, and entrepreneurial.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office tools, especially Excel.
• Advanced English language ability, both written and spoken.

Work Experience:

• 3 to 5 years relevant experience including experience of commodity trading invoicing and settlement or accounts payable.
• Working knowledge of commodity trading systems and invoicing to ERP integration

General Accountability:

• Validate provisional/final invoices submitted by the front office operations team against deal and the supporting documents. Book invoices in commodity trading system and submit for payment.
• Capture secondary cost invoices received and submit for payment.
• Follow up on un-invoiced deliveries or services.
• Report on overdue invoices.
• Store and archive invoices and invoice data together with commodity deal data.
• Net/offset invoices where possible prior to settlement and communicate netting and offsetting with counterparties, in collaboration with the front office operations team.
• Prepare invoices for settlement.
• Follow up on settlement execution.
• Follow up on invoice/settlement counterparty queries.
• Support Treasury Operations in resolving unapplied cash queries.
• Match and clear open invoices in the invoicing system.
• Automate financial operations activities to ensure straight through processing to the general ledger.
• In collaboration with other financial operations teams, identify and implement financial operations best practice including processes and internal controls.

How to : Please on the Careers Portal: Applications Close: 23 May 2024
https://www.glencore.com/careers/career-opportunities
This vacancy will be filled in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Glencore. By ing for this position, you consent to Glencore collecting, storing, using, destroying, and processing in any other manner personal information for purposes of attending to this advertisement, and/ or all matters relating thereto, including the disclosure to third parties of such personal information for purposes of confirming such personal information. In the event you do not hear from the Company within 21 days after the closing date of applications, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful. The CVs of unsuccessful candidates will not be returned.